[DEBATE] : Importing "Precarity"

[Dominic Tweedie]

Pathetic, Yoshie.



2008/6/18 Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Dominic Tweedie
> <dominic.tweedie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Where is the evidence that workers demanded works councils?
> >
> > It's a flat-out lie, my dear.
> >
> > Domza "Captain Swing" VC
>
> Evidence presented by labor historians comes from documents of the
> labor movement of Japan and the actual reforms that workers pushed
> through labor-management councils against management resistance, which
> helps them distinguish such councils from the ones imposed by
> capitalists early in the 20th century to ward off trade unions and the
> ones imposed by the state in war-time Japan (Sanpo that I mentioned
> earlier).  Through this and other means, union leaders sought to
> direct the shape of post-war economic recovery so it would be "by and
> for workers," getting workers to have an equal power to make decisions
> not just on wages and benefits but also such issues as when, where,
> how much, and how to invest, the issues on which the management
> especially wanted to monopolize decision-making.  That was the
> dominant ideology of the labor movement, including the sections led by
> communists and socialists.  The fatal weakness of the Left in Japan is
> that they thought they could do such a thing within the basic
> framework set down by the US occupation (even setting aside the basic
> contradiction of capitalism).  Perhaps they had more illusions about
> the endurance of the US New Deal coalition than even American
> Communists.
>
> Yoshie
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